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How are you monitoring what you're recording? A patch that you've tweaked for use through as guitar amp will likely need considerable re-working if you want to listen with headphones or studio monitors. Also, if you have direct monitoring turned on in the DAW, then you'll be hearing the direct guitar signal from Helix along with the channel output from Garage Band piggybacked on top... the result is a distant/mushy, almost chorus-ed effect.

That's all there is, there ain't no more. The rest are user set lists. Fill em up...

Amen to that... Early adopter = guinea pig. Life has enough headaches as it is. No need to punch yourself in the nuts....;)

Unfortunately, trying to get anything that even vaguely resembles correct info from a retailer is utterly futile. Half the time they can't even tell what is or isn't already in the building, never mind when "item X" might theoretically show up. The drone that you get on the other end of the phone is just parroting what some inventory control program spits out. Treating that as actionable information is as useless as asking for a weather forecast for a year from next Tuesday. "It'll get there when it gets there" is the the only truth you're gonna find.

Theoretically, you could be clipping at any point in the signal chain. Without knowing what else is in your rig, what you're monitoring with, and what individual blocks you have in the patch, it's gonna be difficult for anyone to help you. Without more info, the best anyone can suggest is turning off blocks one at a time to see if the symptom goes away... might help to narrow down where it's coming from. Once you find the culprit (if there is one), most, if not all FX blocks will have an adjustable output parameter.

And even if the above weren't true, you can never tell how long a unit has sat in a retailer's inventory before it makes it's way to your living room. The truth is a handful of those the defective units might still be getting sold 3 years from now... that's why they've extended the warranty on this particular issue forever. Regardless, if you want one, buy one... if you let the possibility of getting a bum unit affect your decision, you'll never buy anything. Every product on earth has it's batch of lemons.

Nope. When you call up a different block, it'll always reset to whatever the default setting are. Is what it is...

Why is the rum gone?!?

Indeed, lol...Obsessing over tuner specs is a waste of time, as they're little more than advertising fodder. Anyone claiming to be able to hear the difference between a few tenths, or hundredths of a cent (which is even more ridiculous) is one of two things: 1) A terminator sent to destroy us all. 2) Delusional.

Is this happening to just one patch, saved in one particular slot? Can you rename and save other patches successfully in other locations? If so, then I suspect it's just a corrupt patch. It happens... computers do weird $hit. If it occurs with multiple patches saved in multiple locations, then there's something else going on. In that case you could try reloading the firmware. If that doesn't help, then it's service ticket time.

You need to post this in the Helix forum... nobody will see it in here.

No, but for the life of me I don't know why you'd want that anyway. There are hot pickups, low output pickups, and everything in between... and that's part of what distinguishes one axe from another. If you eliminate that from the equation, and every guitar you pick up hits the amp exactly the same way, it sterilizes things.

There are no shortcuts, no. Listen and adjust accordingly. Stand by to be told that you need six different varieties of dB meters, a live chicken, and a Ouija board to level patch volumes properly. Pay no attention. The two things you need, you already have: 1) Ears. 2) The channel volume parameter, and/ or the output block volume.

Plug a cable into the 1/4" jack... without that, the guitar isn't "on", and won't be recognized. It's all in the manual.

Patches can be named anything you want, and be put in any set list you want, the names of which are also customizable. Thus, everything can be organized any way you see fit. How else might something be "tagged"?

I didn't give a $hit enough to start...;)

Lol...I thought that I'd already seen this movie. Round and round we go. ;)

Guitar--->wah--->Helix

Lol... gotta love advertising. That's just the Variax Standard... while it is the most recent model, calling it "new" is a bit of a stretch. The modeling is exactly the same as the JTV's, and it's been around for several years now.

And when just the wireless part craps out, now the brains of my rig has to get hospitalized along with it till it's fixed? No thanks. Want a wireless? Buy one... having absolutely everything in one self-contained unit is never a good idea.

This won't be of any help, but I'm curious...does anyone suppose that there's a worse name for a product than the 'Waldorf Blofeld'? It sounds like one of those "services" that concierges at an expensive hotels procure for rich dudes....;)

If you can't find one in stock anywhere there's always Ebay...

1) For the most part, yes. Volume is most of the problem. A comfortable headphone volume is usually considerably lower than typical stage volume. At higher volumes, lows and highs become more prominent, accounting for the "boominess" you're hearing. (Look up the "Fletcher- Munson curve" if you're interested in why this is the case) 2) Different output, different volume = different tone. You need to tweak your patches through the same speakers you'll be using live (or ones as similar as possible), and at or very close to stage volume. If doing so is not an option at home, then I suggest keeping different set lists with patches tweaked for each scenario. It's more work up front, but the alternative is spending half your waking hours constantly switching settings back and forth. 3) A headphone amp won't help you. It can't compensate for the Fletcher-Munson curve, and generally isn't necessary unless you're using very high impedance cans.

Just enough...

Well the closest thing is the Spider series... but if you're used to the kind of amp modeling in the Stomp, you'd be disappointed.